Identifier: treatiseonoperat1784shar (find matches)
Title: A treatise on the operations of surgery : with a description and representation of the inrstruments (sic) used in performing them : to which is prefixed an introduction on the nature and treatment of wounds, abscesses, and ulcers
Year: 1784 (1780s)
Authors: Sharp, Samuel, 1700?-1778
Subjects: Surgery, Operative Surgical instruments and apparatus Surgical Procedures, Operative
Publisher: London : Printed for G. Robinson ...
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
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ce over the glans as far as youcan; and then making an incifion the length ofthe (tone, through the teguments, it may beturned out with a little hook or the point ofa probe : the wound of the fkin flippingback afterward to its proper fituation, andfrom the orifice of the urethra, prevents theifliie of the urine through that orifice, andvery often heals in twenty-four hours. Thisis a much lefs painful method of extractingflones from the urethra, than by any inftru-*ments that have been hitherto devifed.. CHAP. XXIII.Of the Extraction of the Stone in Women. ■T^HE extraction of the (lone in women-*■ will eafily be underflood, fince the wholeoperation confifts in placing them in thefame manner as men, and, without makingany wound, introducing into the bladder aflraight director, upon that a gorget, andafterwards the forceps to take hold of theflone; all which may be done without diffi-culty, by reafon of the fhortnefs of the urc--thra. If the flone proves very large, and in extracting
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Operations c/Surgery. 103 extracting draws the bladder forwards, it isadvifable to make an incilion through theneck cf it upon the ftone, which not onlywill facilitate the extraction, but alfo be lefsdangerous than a laceration, which wouldnecefTarily follow. The dreffings are fomen-tations and emollient ointments, which mouldbe applied two or three times a-day, and thepatient in other refpects be treated like menwho have undergone the operation for the(tone. PLATE IV. The Explanation. A. A found ufed in fearching for theftone. The fize reprefented here is but a little toolarge for the youngeft children, and may beufed upon boys till they are thirteen or four-;teen years of age; a larger mould be employedbetween that age and adultnefs, when one ofabout ten inches, in a right line from thehandle to the extremity, is proper. Thisihould be made of fteel, and its extremity beround and fmooth. B. A ftafF fit for the operation on boysfrom eight to fourteen years of age. TheftafF for a man m

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